From 311782cbea8ca77e0e126f1f95b02692a32899ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick McHardy Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:58:41 +0100 Subject: Add installation instructions Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy --- INSTALL | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 INSTALL (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c06a85f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Installation instruction for nftables +===================================== + + Prerequisites + ============= + + - standard glibc headers, gcc etc. + + - libnl including support for nftables: git://git.netfilter.org/libnl-nft.git + + - flex + + - bison + + - libgmp + + - libreadline + + - optional: docbook2x: required for building man-page + + - optional: docbook-utils: required for building PDF man-page + + Configuring and compiling + ========================= + + Run "sh autogen.sh" to generate the configure script, then: + + sh configure [options] + + --prefix= + + The prefix to put all installed files under. It defaults to + /usr/local, so the binaries will go into /usr/local/bin, sbin, + manpages into /usr/local/share/man, etc. + + --disable-debug + + Disable debugging + + Run "make" to compile nftables, "make install" to install it in the + configured paths. + + Other notes + =========== + + The nftables kernel tree can be found at: + + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nft-2.6.git + + The latest version of this code can be found at: + + git://git.netfilter.org/nftables.git -- cgit v1.2.3